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Michael Conforto

Age: 33
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #20

Born: March 1, 1993 in Seattle, WA, United States
MLB debut: July 24, 2015
Drafted: 2014, round 1
College: Oregon State
High school: Redmond

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dbWAR: 19.0
PA: 314
AVG: .240
OBP: .331
SLG: .469
wRC+: 118

Michael Conforto is a designated hitter for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 45 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 314 plate appearances in 112 games. His batting average was .240, 1.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .331 clip and slugged .469, for an OPS of .800, 11.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 13 on his team, and 76th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.0 mph off the bat, hit 41.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.3% of them and made contact on 73.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — +6.9 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.2 on double plays, -4.9 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+118

wOBA.345

ISO.229

BB%11.1%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +10.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CHC	112	314	65	15	45	1	35	80	.240	.331	.469	.229	.278	11.1%	25.5%	.345	+6.9	118	1.1
2025	LAD	137	486	83	12	36	1	56	121	.199	.305	.333	.134	.247	11.5%	24.9%	.291	-9.7	80	-0.2
2024	SF	130	488	104	20	66	0	42	118	.237	.309	.450	.212	.277	8.6%	24.2%	.328	+6.5	114	1.4
2023	SF	124	470	97	15	58	4	53	106	.239	.334	.384	.145	.284	11.3%	22.6%	.316	-1.5	102	0.9
2021	NYM	125	479	94	14	55	1	59	104	.232	.344	.384	.153	.276	12.3%	21.7%	.326	+3.5	112	1.4
2020	NYM	54	233	65	9	31	3	24	57	.322	.412	.515	.193	.412	10.3%	24.5%	.403	+16.2	156	2.0
2019	NYM	150	648	141	33	92	7	84	149	.257	.363	.494	.237	.290	13.0%	23.0%	.362	+21.8	131	3.6
2018	NYM	153	638	132	28	82	3	84	159	.243	.350	.448	.204	.289	13.2%	24.9%	.346	+14.4	129	3.3
2017	NYM	108	440	104	27	68	2	57	113	.279	.384	.555	.276	.328	13.0%	25.7%	.397	+26.5	156	4.0
2016	NYM	108	348	67	12	42	2	36	89	.220	.310	.414	.194	.267	10.3%	25.6%	.316	-1.5	97	0.5
2015	NYM	55	194	47	9	26	0	17	39	.270	.335	.506	.236	.297	8.8%	20.1%	.364	+7.2	138	1.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Michael Conforto's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	NYM	Postseason total	12	34	30	3	6	3	6	1	8	.200	.235	.500	.735
		NLDS	4	8	7	1	1	1	2	0	1	.143	.125	.571	.696
		NLCS	3	10	8	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.200	.000	.200
		World Series	5	16	15	2	5	2	4	0	3	.333	.313	.733	1.046
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	14	36	32	3	6	3	6	1	10	.188	.222	.469	.691

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	12	11	4	2	1	2	.364	.417	1.000	.577	16.7%
vs RHP	302	260	61	13	34	78	.235	.328	.446	.336	25.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 194 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 11.3%
Exit velocity: 90.0
Max exit velo: 110.9
Hard hit: 41.8%
Sweet spot: 40.2%
Launch angle: 16.7°

Barrel rate11.3%

Exit velocity90.0 mph

Hard hit rate41.8%

Contact rate73.3%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Michael Conforto hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	314	—	—	—	—	—	—	.240	.331	.469	.345
Bases empty	169	148	34	8	8	17	45	.230	.325	.453	.341
Runner on first	75	67	17	4	11	8	20	.254	.333	.507	.364
Runners on	145	123	31	7	37	18	35	.252	.338	.488	.350
RISP	70	56	14	3	26	10	15	.250	.343	.464	.335

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Carter JensenKC

wRC+: 112
HR: 27
AVG: .239
WAR: 3.5

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Max MuncyLAD

wRC+: 132
HR: 29
AVG: .252
WAR: 4.3

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Tyler SoderstromATH

wRC+: 110
HR: 19
AVG: .245
WAR: 1.9

Kazuma OkamotoTOR

wRC+: 111
HR: 33
AVG: .234
WAR: 2.9

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.